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angel

1. Someone who is sweet and perfect, incapable of doing wrong. I'm nine months pregnant now, and I feel like I'm more excited by the moment to meet our little angel. No one will believe it was you who stole the school mascot. Everyone thinks you're an angel! I was a very rebellious teenager, so I'm quite relieved that my son is an angel in comparison!
2. Someone is very helpful or considerate, especially in a time of need. Oh, you absolute angel! How can I ever repay you for rescuing my stolen purse from that mugger? You brought me coffee? Ah, you're an angel. My assistant is truly an angel—I don't know what I would do without her! She is the only reason I'm ever on time for anything.
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angel

1. n. a secret financier. I was hoping for an angel to see this project through, but all the fat-cats seem to have disappeared.
2. n. a sweetheart. (Also a term of address.) Okay, angel, let’s get in the car.
3. n. a sniper hiding in a high place, such as on the roof of a building. The guards looked upward, watching for angels.
4. n. 1,000 feet of altitude, in flight. At about eighteen angels, we began to level out.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Upon being angelically sprung, they took to the streets to preach the gospel again, and to be rearrested.
Driven by the pragmatics of our circumstances as we are, only the most angelically rational can avoid using a particular belief, or belief set, in one situation and another, contradictory, in a different situation.
The Mexican-Americans are all either angelically kind or diabolically evil.
For example, two are called "Holy Thursday"; the lyric from Song of Innocence shows radiant, lamblike children singing angelically; the poem from Songs of Experience shows poor and hungry children whose song is a "trembling cry." Likewise, the second song of "The Chimney Sweeper" emphasizes the abandonment of the child and the false, restrictive piety of the adult world.
So, his handlers should come to his rescue by asking for less simplistic and more believable resolutions to the problems that he too angelically helps to solve.
Whisper of how I'm yearning To Look Homeward, Angelically. Give my regards to old Broadway And thank the Thomas Wolfe Society.
Elijah walked 40 days on the strength of one angelically prompted meal and in so doing reached the end of his despair.
To that end, Cassavetes falls back on a reliable combo of heart-tugging music (either mood-setting pop tunes or Aaron Zigman's tastefully downbeat score) and repeated shots of a bald, feeble Kate beaming angelically through her tears.
Jenny, which would you rather be, she asked, dazzlingly beautiful, brilliantly clever, or angelically good?
But is the angelically beautiful Judith as sweet and innocent as she appears?
It seems a little girl named Loren (the angelically creepy AnnaSophia Robb from "Bridge to Terabithia") has brought the 10 plagues upon a tiny bayou town known as Haven (of course).
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